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English emulating them well losing three quick wickets in the mini session

Play has been called off the day. So that will be that. Just the 13 wickets today (and a collapse of 9 for 49 in that). Honours even at the end, or a nose ahead for either side.
Tamim Iqbal the standout batting, with a word to Momimul as well. The rest? Well, less said the better. To be fair, there was some good bowling as well. Moeen found his line and length and Stokes was outstanding again. Then Mehedi did his stuff with the new ball.

What a prediction to do at 178/2 and what a passage of play for England to get this fulfilled

190/2 Runs and wickets in the first 45 overs of the day. But in the next 36.2 overs, 11 wickets fell for just 80 runs. England too lost three wickets for 50 runs in 12.3 overs before the interruption of rain.

Bangladesh have lost their last nine wickets for 49 in 22.5 overs

49 Runs for which Bangladesh lost their last nine wickets - 171 for 1 to 220 all out - their third-lowest in a collapse of nine wickets.
They lost their last nine wickets for 32 runs (102 for 1 to 134 all out) against Zimbabwe in Harare in 2013 and for 48 runs (14 for 1 to 62 all out) against Sri Lanka at Premadasa in 2007.

Bangladesh losing last nine wickets for less than 50 runs against England

2013 Last time a team lost their last nine wickets for less than 50 runs - also Bangladesh when they collapsed from 102 for 1 to 134 all out in Harare.
There were seven such instances for various teams between 2011 and 2013, but none in the last 30 months.

England take 9 for 49 against Bangladesh at Dhaka

49 Runs for which Bangladesh lost their last nine wickets - 171 for 1 to 220 all out - their third-lowest in a collapse of nine wickets.
They lost their last nine wickets for 32 runs (102 for 1 to 134 all out) against Zimbabwe in Harare in 2013 and for 48 runs (14 for 1 to 62 all out) against Sri Lanka at Premadasa in 2007.

Alastair Cook becomes first to score 10000 runs as an opening batsman

England captain Alastair Cook has become the first player to score 10,000 runs as an opening batsman in Test cricket.
He is the fourth player to do it from any batting position after Sachin Tendulkar (13492 at No. 4), Kumar Sangakkara (11679 at No. 3) and Rahul Dravid (10524 at No. 3).

Highest percentage of total represented by a single partnership - all out innings only

77.27 Percentage contribution of the Tamim-Mominul partnership to Bangladesh's total of 220. There has been only one higher percentage of a team's total represented by a
single partnership - 77.78% (168 of 216) by Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene against South Africa in Durban in 2000.

18-year-old off-spinner Mehedi Hasan takes five-for on debut

Mehedi Hasan says: 'Very happy to have taken five wickets on my international debut. England is a good Test team, I just wanted to bowl well.
The wicket is good, but it's spinning and helped me a lot. I am not tired, I have bowled a lot here in domestic cricket. We need to take the remaining three wickets early tomorrow and then bat well.'

Moeen Ali highest Test score in Asia

Stumps, Day 1: Attritional cricket at its very best. The day ends with the game delicately poised at a knife's edge with both teams refusing to concede an inch. On a wicket that looks more day three than one, the English top order fell cheaply to the spin web wound around by the Bangla spinners.
Led by the debutant, Mehedi Hasan, who carried the load of 33 overs in the day, the game seemed to be heading into the pockets of the hosts after the initial spell. But Bairstow, Moeen Ali and Woakes in the end combined to ensure that the fight doesn't perish and more importantly ensured that they reap the benefit of having had the opportunity to bat first on what promises to crumble by the tick of the clock.